Paulina Tindana
Paulina Tindana is an Associate Professor and Bioethicist at the Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, School of Public Health University of Ghana. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, University of Ghana in 1999, a certificate in Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute, Baltimore USA in 2002, Master of Health Sciences degree, University of Toronto, Canada in 2004 and a DPhil in Public Health, University of Oxford, UK in 2013.
Her teaching and research interests lie in the ethical, socio-cultural and policy implications of biomedical research and public health systems, including genetics and genomics research. She has published extensively on these topics and been involved in several research ethics and bioethics capacity building initiatives across Africa. She has supervised over 55 masters students and 10 PhD students at the University of Ghana School of Public Health.
She is the Principal Investigator of the PDNA Genomics Epidemiology for Malaria Elimination Policy Engagement Project, which is funded by the Gates Foundation and the Multiple Principal Investigator for H3Africa Community Engagement in Genomics and Biobanking (CEBioGen) project which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has served on a number of national and international bioethics committees including the Ghana Health Service Ethics Review Committee, the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (IBC), the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) and the H3Africa Consortium. Prior to joining the University of Ghana in 2018, she worked at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in Northern Ghana as a Deputy Chief Health Research Officer where she spent almost 20 years on social science research and supporting research ethics capacity and community engagement activities.